US Threatens to Penalize China for Helping Russia Sidestep Export Controls
The U.S. will penalize China if it tries to help Russia evade impending U.S. export controls that would be imposed if President Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine, the State Department said. Those measures would be coordinated with allies, spokesperson Ned Price told reporters Feb. 3.
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“The United States and our allies and partners, we have an array of tools that we can deploy if we see foreign companies, including those in China, doing their best to backfill U.S. export control actions, to evade them, to get around them,” Price said. “I wouldn't want to speculate on what those tools are, but we do have tools that can address that and that would seek to account for that.”
The U.S. last month previewed its plan to impose a “massive” set of export controls and sanctions on the Russian economy if the country further invades Ukraine, including measures to cut off Russian companies from both U.S. and foreign-produced technology inputs (see 2201250042).